46y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia complicating epistaxis in the setting of prolonged nasal pr…
…brain injury, dysphagia, and recurrent aspiration pneumonia, died from aspiration pneumonia complicating epistaxis following prolonged nasal prong oxygen therapy. During a 20-day hospital admission for cholangitis and a…
4y · Female·Haemorrhage due to aorto-oesophageal fistula caused by ingestion of a button bat…
…discharged the child within 15 minutes of arrival despite multiple episodes of haematemesis, fixating on epistaxis (nosebleed) diagnosis without adequate history-taking for gastrointestinal bleeding. The child presented…
78y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia, epistaxis, and trauma to the face
…tia, was assaulted by a co-resident at an aged care facility in April 2006, sustaining facial trauma and epistaxis. She died from aspiration pneumonia 10 days later. The coroner identified that a co-resident, JL, exhibi…
54y · Male·Hypoxic/ischaemic brain damage caused by blood loss and airway obstruction due t…
…male was assaulted in a nightclub with a single punch causing orbital and facial fractures and posterior epistaxis. He presented to the Royal Hobart Hospital ED with active bleeding. Critical deficits in his emergency t…
70y · Male·organising diffuse alveolar damage in the setting of hypertensive heart disease,…
…d COPD. He presented on 18 April 2023 with acute respiratory symptoms including dyspnoea, dizziness, and epistaxis after losing his regular inhaler. Initial presentation to East Grampians Health Service resulted in same…
14y · Female·blunt force head injury
A 14-year-old Aboriginal girl with newly diagnosed idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and critically low platelet count (5,000/mm³) absconded from Alice Springs Hospital on 27 January 2006. Hospital staff failed t…
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